8.5.0

rsyslog 8.5.0 (v8-devel) released

We have just released 8.5.0 of the v8-devel branch.

This begins the next v8 devel series. Most importantly, it contains a greatly refactored imfile, which now supports wildcards inside filenames. There are also some other improvements, as well as some bugfixes that are not yet included in the stable versions (this will happen soon with the next release).

For more details about using wildcards in imfile, please take a look at this presentation:

Using Wildcards with rsyslog’s File Monitor

ChangeLog:

http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-8-5-0-v8-devel/

Download:

http://www.rsyslog.com/download-v8-devel/

As always, feedback is appreciated.

Best regards,
Florian Riedl

Changelog for 8.5.0 (v8-devel)

Version 8.5.0 [v8-stable] 2014-10-24

  • imfile greatly refactored and support for wildcards added
  • PRI-handling code refactored for more clarity and robustness
  • ommail: add support for RainerScript config system [action() object]
    This finally adds support for the new config style. Also, we now permit to set a constant subject text without the need to create a template for it.
  • refactored the auto-backgrounding method
    The code is now more robust and also offers possibilities for enhanced error reporting in the future. This is also assumed to fix some races where a system startup script hang due to “hanging” rsyslogd.
  • make gntls tcp syslog driver emit more error messages
    Messages previously emitted only to the debug log are now emitted as syslog error messages. It has shown that they contain information  helpful to the user for troubleshooting config issues. Note that this change is a bit experimental, as we are not sure if there are situations where large amounts of error messages may be emitted.
  • bugfix: imfile did not complain if configured file did not exist
    closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/137
  • bugfix: build failure on systems which don’t have json_tokener_errors
    Older versions of json-c need to use a different API (which don’t exists on newer versions, unfortunately…)
    Thanks to Thomas D. for reporting this problem.
  • imgssapi: log remote peer address in some error messages
    Thanks to Bodik for the patch.
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